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YITH WooCommerce Wishlist
It builds wishlists but often breaks your site in the process.
HealthyDeclining
63/100
The plugin provides essential features but leaves free users vulnerable to bots and frequent update bugs.
Active installs
~450,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 400k+
Rating
3.9★
262 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-8%
Declining
3,035 → 2,795 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -8% in the last year
3,035/day a year ago→2,795/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayYITH WooCommerce Wishlist is a widely-used but increasingly troubled wishlist plugin for WooCommerce, with a functional free tier that is undermined by serious bot-exploitation vulnerabilities, SEO side-effects, and a pattern of updates breaking existing functionality.
What people like
- +Free version is functional and relatively easy to set up and use×4
- +Stable when left alone after initial setup — updates without requiring ongoing maintenance
Common complaints
- −The add_to_wishlist query string is heavily targeted by bots, generating thousands of PHP requests and overloading server resources×2
- −Plugin creates large numbers of indexable URLs with query parameters (add_to_wishlist, _wpnonce, rest-nonce) that pollute Google Search Console and persist even after the plugin is removed
- −Updates have broken functionality — including button displacement, JavaScript conflicts, and general corruption×3
- −Support is slow, unresponsive, or superficial; agents skim rather than read reported issues×2
- −Bot protection (forcing user registration before wishlist creation) is locked behind the premium version, leaving free users exposed
- −Premium pricing considered excessive relative to the value delivered, with no meaningful annual updates to justify renewal
- −Compatibility issues reported with at least one major page builder (Divi)
- −Wishlist counter does not update dynamically without navigating to the wishlist page on the free version
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.09★Verified rating — drops from 3.90★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 16%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 262 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-01★★★★★Automated bots target query string “add_to_wishlist”nipinuk
- 2026-03-23★★★★★El millor, no cal dir res mes.Jordi Ortega Margarit
- 2025-10-13★★★★★Plugin harmful to website SEOigor20211-shot
- 2025-05-21★★★★★do not work in product pagechicho1969
- 2025-01-07★★★★★Love the Hearts!oxen130
- 2024-12-05★★★★★Good!tyd198025
- 2024-11-21★★★★★Overpricedquintusg
- 2024-11-08★★★★★Error in last updatejnarvaez
- 2024-11-06★★★★★After the last update it became corruptedrafatbarakat
- 2024-11-04★★★★★Necessarymaxim23
Releases
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
3,103
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
2,931
Prior 7-day baseline
2,971
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
23,503
Mean release-day peak (30d)
3,092
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+5.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.43
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
77%
5★ share in analyzed sample
16%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.19 → 4.09★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered